The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in Colonial Massachusetts between Feb. 1692 and May The trials resulted in executions of twenty people, most of them women.

The Salem Witch Trials [infographic

The Salem Witch Trials of were by far the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft hysteria in American history. Yet Salem was just one of many incidents during the Great Age of Witch Hunts which took place throughout Europe and her coloni